Miguel Gomez Loza

Miguel Gomez Loza (11 August 1888-21 March 1928) was a leader of the Cristeros during the Cristero War of the 1920s in Mexico.

Biography
Miguel Gomez Loza was born in Tepatitlan, Jalisco, Mexico in 1888, and he became an attorney in Arandas before joining the Catholic youth movement in 1915 and establishing a national congress of Catholic workers. He was arrested 59 times for organizing protests in solidarity with the needy, and, during the 1920s, he supported nonviolent resistance to Plutarco Elias Calles' anti-clerical government. After the death of Anacleto Gonzalez Flores during the Cristero War, the Cristeros appointed him Governor of Jalisco, and, on 21 March 1928, he was arrested by the Mexican Army at his Atotonilco ranch and executed by firing squad.